Kuperman Brothers

Vlad is a brilliant choreographer and a singular storyteller. Not only is his movementchallenging, emotional, and extremely rewarding to dance, but to train with him is todevelop the highest level of professional skills that will last a career. You can spot a Vlad-traineddancer from their body control, their intuition with partnering, and their openness,both emotionally and when presented with a challenge. Indeed, where otherchoreographers might alter or compromise when faced with a particularly difficult imageor sequence, Vlad pushes his artists to take risks and to press further. If something doesn'twork during the first attempt, or the second, or the eighth, Vlad's dancers will make it workon the tenth attempt, and the eleventh, and so on. It is partly this commitment toexcellence and this uncompromising spirit that make BTA shows so captivating to watch. ABTA training teaches patience, resolve, tenacity, and problem solving; you can see thesequalities at play when watching any BTA show from Vlad’s body of work. As directors andchoreographers working in New York and abroad, we can always tell which performershave been through the fire with Vlad, and they're always the most in-demand performersin the room.

Biography

Rick and Jeff are a directing and choreography team for stage and screen. Recenthighlights include choreographing a special NYE performance for Phish at MadisonSquare Garden and Broadway Asia’s immersive Peter Pan in Beijing.For camera they've directed award-winning shorts and music videos that have screened atthe Film Society of Lincoln Center, Sprockets, festivals around the world, and online atEntertainment Weekly, NPR, and The Huffington Post.Recent stage directing credits include Smile (FringeNYC), Roll! (Ars Nova), The 39 Steps(PST), and Dispossessed (HERE). Recent choreography credits: Orpheus in the Berkshires(Williamstown Theater Festival), The Light Princess (American Repertory Theater/NewVictory Theater, NY Times Critics' Pick), My Machine is Powered by Clocks (New Ohio/DixonPlace), Hold Music (The Living Theater), and Tit for Tat (Ailey Citigroup/White Wave/Stepson Broadway). Recent music video choreography: “Safe and Sound” (Capital Cities),"Around" (Russell Elliot), and "Bad Body" & "Don't Feed the Party Animal" (Miracles ofModern Science).As performers they have worked with choreographers Alison Chase (Pilobolus), ChericeBarton (B'way: Spider-Man), Benoit-Swan Pouffer (Cedar Lake), and Josh Prince (B’way:Shrek, Beautiful), and have appeared in films, TV shows, and commercials produced byMTV, YTV, National Geographic, Bravo!, and MuchMusic.The bros are grads of Harvard and Princeton, third degree black belts in Kenpo Karate,Canadians with US Green Cards (eh!), and proud Vlad’s grads.